Attorney General Eric Holder signaled Thursday that the Justice Department will work more closely with state and federal prosecutors to crack down on financial fraud, in response to the recent increase in white-collar crime convictions. To prevent future Madoff-like crimes, Holder said that the Justice Department must work with local and federal officials and consider instituting a task force to investigate fraud and other white-collar crime. (Wall Street Journal)Three prisoners at Bagram military air force base in Afghanistan can challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts, a federal judge ruled Thursday. The Justice Department granted this right to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay last month, but said the decision did not apply to so-called enemy combatants in other military prisons. Judge John Bates’ ruling applies to three detainees from Yemen and Tunisia, who were captured and brought to the military prison. In his ruling, Bates criticized the prisoners’ arrest, saying it was unfair to arrest people and bring them to “a theater of war, where the Constitution arguably may not reach.” (New York Times)
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